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Welcome...

To DF 2014

About a year and a half ago, Mastahcheese had a wonderful idea for the upcoming release; to make a succession world, as opposed to just a single fort. A thread was made, and hype ensued.

The time has come, now that you can "retire" forts, this is a possibility. To have a succession world, passed on between players. To have multiple player made forts in a single world. To have adventurers move between them. This my friends, is the future of community games.

So, us intrepid Bay Watchers have decided upon the rules for this community game, and they are as follows:

As for turn lengths, we decided on 96 hours. I figure 24 hours is a reasonable enough time to let me know if you can or can't take your turn, with another 24 hours extension to start your turn if you ask for it. You have to post on the thread starting your turn, or you will be skipped. That way we can still keep it fast, and have turnover every 5 days. In addition, it's not necessary to play the full 96 hours, but I'm assuming most people will want to.

Next, world gen parameters. We decided on a short history, and a large world, with a medium amount of civs, sites, savagery etc.

When it comes to rules, the usual apply. Don't go out of your way to destroy the fort, or to destroy the projects of other players. In traditional DF community game style, players are expected to write a summary of events from their turn. You have to post some sort of update within two days, or you're skipped. This can be in the form of a journal, a log of events, or whatever your heart desires. When you're done with your turn, retire your fort/adventurer, then zip up the save file and post the link here.

What you do in your turn is up to you, so long as you're done within the time limit. Want to build a massive megaproject? Go for it. Want to build some caves for other adventurers to navigate through? Go for it. Want to be an adventurer and take over a city? Go for it, so long as whatever you do is within the above rules.

Turn List Complete, Active, Skipped

• Glloyd 1 2 3
• Elephant Parade 1 2
• StLeibowitz 1
• Lolfail0009
• Ghills
• Insanity Incarnate
• Insanity X
• Broken
• Lurker Z
• Inarius
• Lightningfalcon
• Volfgarix
• Atomic Chicken
• Jaccarmac
• pisskop
• NAV
• Timeless Bob
• The Master
• Plancky
• Ruhn
• eharper256
• wickys
• Meme
• Sheaim
• DeiDei
• tonnot98
• Eric Blank
• PsychoAngel
• Zanzetkuken The Great

Skipped (In Order)

Th4DwArfY1
Scotsmen
HugoLuman
DarkDXZ
apiks


Good luck friends, it's time to strike the earth.

Basically, my dad is fulfilling his life's dream and retiring on his 55th birthday in a couple weeks. However, he's worked for a company for 37 years, and when he retires, he won't have a company laptop or phone. So, he's looking into buying a laptop, and he asked to to figure out the particulars for him.

So I came here, because I don't really know where to look to find cheap, simple laptops.

Basically, all I'm looking for is something that:

1. Is running Windows 7. 8 would be just way too confusing for him after using normal Windows for 20 odd years.
2. Has WiFi, and possible Bluetooth functionality.
3. Isn't outrageously expensive.
4. Is possibly decently durable as far as laptops go?


And that's about it. I've never really bought a laptop before, the one I'm using now I bought secondhand off a cousin of mine, and besides that I've only ever owned desktops that I built. Also, brick and mortar stores are bad because apparently they only sell Windows 8.1 laptops now. Any idea where to start looking, or even better, any suggestions for laptops?

Well hey there Creative Projects Board.

Introduction

I've been playing a game called "Space Station 13" far too much recently, and thus, to help placate my addiction, I have decided to make an entirely new station map. But, I know what you're wondering, "Glloyd, wtf. This is Bay12. Go to the Space Station 13 forums to do that!" Well, as a matter of fact, there is no single Space Station 13 forum. It's divided into many different branches and I really don't play any of them much...

Except for one!

The server I play on is a private Bay 12 server called "Urist McStation. We're small, and don't have our own forums. Also, although I'm making this map for the playerbase, I'm also making it for myself as well, to see what I can do with the horrible mapping software that is DreamMaker. Although, this is a big undertaking, and to that end, I will be accepting help from interested parties, and I will accept feedback from anyone who cares enough to politely contribute.

Information (Generously copied from the Urist McStation thread in Other Games mostly)

Space Station 13...
...is an RPG running on the BYOND game making engine, simulating life aboard Nanotrasen Space Station 13.  Engineers, doctors, botanists, scientists, security, the captain, and many more live on Space Station 13, keeping everyone happy and healthy.  Until the !!FUN!! starts, anyway.

Play...
...as one of the denizens of Space Station 13, performing your assigned duties to keep the station running and productive, but...one of you may be a traitor!  Perform your secret corporate espionage, and escape!   Or perhaps you're a changeling, disguised to absorb DNA from the unsuspecting humans aboard the station!  There are also revolution, cult, and many more possible modes, including secret, where nobody knows what mode is being played.

Urist McStation...
...is running a custom fork of the tgstation code base.  Several members of the SS13 community expressed a desire for a server that wasn't completely clownish, while not being too hardcore on requiring roleplay.  Roleplay is encouraged on Urist McStation, but players will not be punished for minor slips of character.  For example, medical hacking doors is fine, security performing major surgery is frowned upon.

This Thread...
...is not a place to discuss SS13. It is a place to talk about the map I am making, and politely offer advice/feedback/help. There are other places to discuss the game, and argue about it. Here is not one. To be specific, no game discussion, especially when related to bans. This thread is for mapping. If you want to post things you like about other station maps, that's fine. Argueing about which map is better? Not cool.

I am...
...a university student majoring in history. Maps have always interested me extremely, to the point where in some games, (Think older RTS titles with included map editors,) I would spend more time making cool maps then actually playing the game. When I started playing SS13, I found the Dream Maker functions, and instantly lost hours upon hours to it. It went hand in hand with my interest in coding.

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I'll be posting updates as the map progresses, and hold polls to see what people think, and we'll see how horribly this turns out...

I will accept help though! This project is not only for me, but for the community. I intend to set up a Git repo, so prospective mappers can contribute to it as well. Until then, wish me luck!